What Does Luke 23:10 Mean?
And the chief priests and scribes stood and accused him fiercely.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.THE KEY
The Greek for “accused” carries the sense of making a public charge, showing how accusation can gather force around a person without that force becoming proof.
THE MEANING
Accusation can arrive with the posture of authority and the sound of certainty around you. Its intensity describes how forcefully a charge is pressed; it does not establish that the charge is true.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that an accusation must be true because powerful voices press it with force.
THE ROOT
κατηγοροῦντες
katēgorountes
GROWS FROM
κατά + ἀγορεύω (katá + agoreúō)
To speak against publicly; to bring a charge against someone.
“accused” in this verse is katēgorountes. The verb is built around speaking against someone publicly, a charge made in the open. The verse shows accusation as a collective act with visible force, while leaving that force distinct from proof.
ALSO GROWS
katēgoros: A person who brings an accusation.
κατήγορος
The accuser is named by the same word family, linking the public charge to the person pressing it.
katēgoria: An accusation or formal charge.
κατηγορία
This branch names the charge itself, showing how the act of speaking against someone becomes a claim that can be examined.
THE PATTERN
A public accusation gains no truth from its force; it must be examined and established.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any crookedness, or for any falling short, in it he misses the mark; upon the mouth of two witnesses, or upon the mouth of three witnesses, the word shall stand.The aligned one at the head of his own contention seems straight, but his neighbor comes and searches him out.And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, "Now has come the deliverance, and the strength, and the governance of our God, and the authority of his Anointed One. For the one who speaks against our brothers is thrown down, he who speaks against them before our God day and night."THE THREAD
He said to them, You brought this man to me as one who turns the people away. And look, I, having sifted him before you, found no fault in this man concerning the things you accuse him of.The same Greek verb for accusation appears beside an examination that finds no fault in the charge. The shared root holds accusation and proof apart: a forcefully pressed claim still awaits scrutiny.
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